Sentence examples for independent reason from inspiring English sources

But the court gives a second and independent reason for invalidating this humane (not to say anti-barbarian) law: That it fails to allow an exception for the situation in which the abortionist believes that this live-birth method of destroying the child might be safer for the woman.

Besides, there is independent reason to reject such comparative knowledge anyway (see Owens 1990 19922).

The only grounds for rejecting it, they claim, is that it leads to a theistic conclusion, which is not an independent reason for rejecting it.

Yet however compelling this may sound, one might like some independent reason to surrender SK, instead of opting for a different response to the reductio.

In particular, he argues that calibrating an experimental apparatus by using a surrogate signal cannot provide an independent reason for considering the apparatus to be reliable.

He insists that there is independent reason to qualify the principle to those things whose size and shape permits them to be fit into a single world.

The thought is that only if people treat the commands of the state as providing content independent reasons for obedience can a reasonably just state actually perform the tasks that make it just.

But the instrumentalist will also argue that individuals will often act less in accordance with the reasons that apply to them if they fail to take the commands of a reasonably just state as offering content independent reasons because only the state's commands can clue them in to what the rules that establish justice are in their particular community.

Even if it be conceded that rational choice and agreement in the original position, or reasonable agreement in a well-ordered society, do not provide independent reasons for principles of justice, still they serve the crucial, perhaps necessary role of organizing the reasons that the original position incorporates and authorizing inference to the principles of justice.

We conclude that it does for at least two independent reasons.

The idea sounds bizarre, and I cannot do it justice here, but again there are independent reasons to take it seriously.